Monument record SUY 052 - Undated pits, Former Four Swans Hotel, North Street

October 1999: Monitoring of groundworks for construction of two (shops?) units located two undated pits. Rest of site suffered severe truncation, probably during construction of earlier hotel. Details in (S1).

Monitoring of groundworks associated with the conversion of the former hotel into retail units was undertaken. A large cellar and a smaller sub-cellar forming a boiler house associated with the hotel were identified. Two small pits were recorded but no artefacts were recovered. It had been hoped to identify earlier medieval buildings that would have undoubtedly fronted onto North Street but such evidence, had any existed, would have been destroyed during the construction of the larger cellar.
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 1999 (S2).